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Jose Rincon’s killer to be sentenced Tuesday

Glenda Rumsey will be sentenced this coming Tuesday at 1:30 PM in the Board of Supervisor’s room at 130 W. Congress in downtown Tucson. Most of you know that she was driving with a blood alcohol content of .249 when she hit 14 year-old Jose Rincon, killing him and injuring his friend. Rincon and his friend were riding their bicycles far off the shoulder on Broadway Ave.

The Rincon family has made a crusade not of demonizing Rumsey but of highlighting the loss that can come from drunk driving. They have asked people to come to Ms. Rumsey’s sentencing.

I think BICAS employees should strongly consider attending, and I would personally favor closing BICAS for the hour or so the hearing will occur. But that’s the collective’s call.

About big jonny

The man, the legend. The guy who started it all back in the Year of Our Lord Beer, 2000, with a couple of pages worth of idiotic ranting hardcoded on some random porn site that would host anything you uploaded, a book called HTML for Dummies (which was completely appropriate), a bad attitude (which hasn’t much changed), and a Dell desktop running Win95 with 64 mgs of ram and a six gig hard drive. Those were the days. Then he went to law school. Go figure.
Flagstaff, Arizona, USA

…maybe in their place, i would also bow to the inevitable & take their stance…but i don’t know that i would have the fortitude to adopt that kind of attitude…

…as butthead sez, this is extremely positive…

…that being said, i remember this case particularly well because numerous friends of the driver jumped to her defense because “she is a good person” basically ignoring the fact that her extreme lapse of judgment {a point 249 blood alcohol content is excessively drunk or a sign of severe alcoholism if you have the temerity think that that much alcohol in your system doesn’t drastically impair your functions}, cost a young man his life & a family their dreams…as well as her own…

…i’m not vilifying the driver at this point but i do hope the judge has the courage & vision to make others realize that such a simple yet stupid act of recklessness can have far reaching consequences…